{"id":13795,"date":"2015-06-29T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13795"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:31","slug":"pbs-newshour-is-the-worlds-fresh-water-supply-running-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/pbs-newshour-is-the-worlds-fresh-water-supply-running-out\/","title":{"rendered":"(PBS NEWSHOUR) Is the world\u2019s fresh water supply running out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of millions of people around the world depend on the use of underground rock formations known as aquifers to get the clean water they need. But a pair of new studies show many of the largest aquifers are being depleted at alarming rates.<\/p>\n<p>As seen on this map, of the 37 largest ones in the world, 21 are losing more water than is being replaced, with those areas in orange and red showing much more serious problems with depletion. These are located in countries like China, Russia and Australia, as well as India, where water resources are already a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/worlds-fresh-water-supply-running\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click Here to Read the Full Article:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/worlds-fresh-water-supply-running\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/npr-e1434670012298.jpg\" alt=\"npr\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Hundreds of millions of people around the world depend on the use of underground rock formations known as aquifers to get the clean water they need. But a pair of new studies show many of the largest aquifers are being depleted at alarming rates. As seen on this map, of the 37 largest ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13797,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}